Have a Niese Memory

[Benjamin Grimm]

The most unique thing about him (other than his date of birth which isn't actually unique because he shares it with Pedro Beato and millions of others) is that a former teammate financed his nose job.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

86-Dreamer wrote: I'll mostly remember how well he pitched in relief this postseason.

He got a big strikeout iirc, but I can't remember who and when. I would not have been surprised if he didn't and I think maybe he thought that too.

[stevejrogers]

Niese through the years with Topps Base cards

[batmagadanleadoff]

That's an old hat on a 2015 card. What is this, 1969 again, when Topps was low in new photo stock and hadda use old and repeated images?

[Benjamin Grimm]

[stevejrogers]

That's an old hat on a 2015 card. What is this, 1969 again, when Topps was low in new photo stock and hadda use old and repeated images?

And the year before they have him in the blue uni that replaced the all black ones!

Hell, his Allen & Ginter and Topps Sticker cards this year show him in the alt road blues!

[Frayed Knot]

You can watch the evolution of his nose via these cards.

[Edgy MD]

Let's relive the great story (or "story") of Jon Niese cussing out Terry in his last start of the 2014 season.

[Edgy MD]

Sorry to see Jon make his second departure while this thread noting his original departure is still active, and for him to depart as something of a villain.

I note above that he was part of a string of seven different opening day pitchers taking the bump in seven years. Unless a situation develops causing the Mets to switch from Syndergaard to Harvey, it'll be eight in eight years.

[Guest themetfairy]

Here's a different picture, and a different memory. Look at his right arm and you can see his children's names tattooed on it.

Edited February 20, 2017 by Guest

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edgy MD wrote: Sorry to see Jon make his second departure while this thread noting his original departure is still active, and for him to depart as something of a villain.

More like "something of an afterthought," really. And with the walk rate and HR/FB rate both steadily tracking upward as he heads toward the stupid, stupid Bronx, it feels like he's headed toward "something of a sad, joke-like thing." I feel like he would have been better off with someone like the Pods.

[Frayed Knot]

You wonder if the Yanx really foresee a possible niche for Niese (or a niese for Niche) or if the Steinbrenner DNA (inherited or just rubbed off) still dictates that all ex-Mets that can be picked-up are
picked-up just on the off chance that a revival will allow the Yanx to 'steal' a player they can claim him as their own?
We know this existed and that it was quite intentional with the late '80s crew [Darryl, Dwight, Cone, Mazzilli] when even long-shot pick-ups like Santana and Sid were brought in during their final year(s).
But even now there's Ike, and Ruben, and now Niese just in the last six months, not to mention their ill-fated signing of Pedro Feliciano. Even with George dead and gone for years now, this seems to still
happen too often to just dismiss as random coincidence.

[MFS62]

TransMonk wrote: Niese's biggest problem, in my eyes, was that he never had the talent nor the mental toughness to be able to pitch through adversity and jams (whether they were caused by himself or failures of the defense).

This.
My fondest memory of John Niese was when I joyously cheered when I heard he was no longer a Met.

Later

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

You guys are mean. Niese was a perfectly adequate mid-rotation lefty for awhile. I think his problem was that the shoulder woes he encountered weren't radical enough to require surgery but just enough to compromise his effectiveness. I guess I could say his failure to adjust to that was his biggest sin.

[Guest themetfairy]

I think his whininess in Pittsburgh turned off a lot of Mets fans. As a result, he was a less sympathetic figure upon his return.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, just as Captain Renault once warned to his "Dear friend Rickie" about how throwing away women was wasteful as "one day they may be scarce", just substitute in 'league average left-handers' in
that little piece of advice.
If you don't think that guys who give you 25-30 starts per year across seven season at league average-ish ERAs and WHIPs have at least some value, go see what one of them, particularly one in
his 20s, costs you on the open market. And during the peak of his time here (2012-14) Niese was giving us better than average stuff basically every fifth day (sub-3.50, 1.28 WHIP, 84 starts)

[batmagadanleadoff]

G-Fafif wrote: GKR Bobblehead night on August 27, 2013, had to have been Niese's best all-around performance: 3-hit shutout of Phillies, doubled in three runs. Helped take the edge off the news that had just come down re Harvey requiring rehab for coke addiction...I mean Tommy John surgery.

What a coincidence. I was at that game, too. Got me a GKR Bobblehead, too. I wouldn'ta capitalized "Bobblehead", but since you did, I figured that was the way to do it.

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[Benjamin Grimm]

I don't think "bobblehead" is a proper noun, but when part of "Bobblehead Night" it should be capitalized.

G-Fafif's use of "GKR Bobblehead night" wasn't wrong in using the upper-case B. The error (I believe) was in the lower-case N.

Of course, my comment really should have been posted in in the "All-Purpose Bobblehead Capitalization" thread.

[Guest themetfairy]

GKR Bobblehead night on August 27, 2013, had to have been Niese's best all-around performance: 3-hit shutout of Phillies, doubled in three runs. Helped take the edge off the news that had just come down re Harvey requiring rehab for coke addiction...I mean Tommy John surgery.

That was the night I took this photo -